{"id":52754,"date":"2025-01-28T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/kfc-workers-face-backlash-on-tiktok-after-being-caught-licking-chicken-pieces-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:01:36","slug":"kfc-workers-face-backlash-on-tiktok-after-being-caught-licking-chicken-pieces-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/kfc-workers-face-backlash-on-tiktok-after-being-caught-licking-chicken-pieces-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"KFC workers face backlash on TikTok after being caught licking chicken pieces &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFC workers face backlash on TikTok after being caught licking chicken pieces TIKTOK: georgiadel_06Several KFC workers are under fire after a viral TikTok video showed them licking fried chicken and throwing food around. A group of Australian KFC workers were filmed licking pieces of fried chicken, grabbing handfuls of lettuce and messing with food. In the original TikTok video, a young employee appeared to be putting her mouth to a tray of chicken before bursting out laughing. The rest of the staff members were seen grabbing handfuls of food, like fries, lettuce and fried chicken, and throwing them around the kitchen. One employee was filmed licking and biting into cooked chicken, while others were shown eating chicken pieces, and biting into lettuce before letting it fall back into the container. \u201cPOV closing time,\u201d the short clip was captioned, as it went viral with over 470,000 views, before the user who posted the video set their account to private. KFC workers slammed for \u201cdisgusting\u201d video TikTok users rushed to the comments to slam the workers for mishandling food, with many expressing concern for food and hygiene safety practices. \u201cIs this what you were doing when I waited an hour for my food?\u201d one questioned. \u201cThis is truly disgusting, even if you\u2019re throwing it out,\u201d another wrote. \u201cThis is bloody disgusting, just as well I haven\u2019t bought KFC in years and I certainly won\u2019t in the future,\u201d a third added. \u201cNah I\u2019m a HUGE germaphobe, never again even if KFC is so good, I absolutely will not,\u201d someone else shared. Others urged KFC to take action, saying they were sending the footage to head office. \u201cSending this to head office,\u201d one commented. \u201cKFC better deal with this or I\u2019m never eating there again,\u201d another said. \u201cDid somebody say \u2018you\u2019re fired,&#8217;\u201d a third quipped. At the time of writing, KFC Australia has not commented on the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFC workers face backlash on TikTok after being caught licking chicken pieces TIKTOK: georgiadel_06Several KFC workers are under fire after a viral TikTok video showed them licking fried chicken and throwing food around. A group of Australian KFC workers were filmed licking pieces of fried chicken, grabbing handfuls of lettuce and messing with food. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}